Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Letters of the Catholic Poor

Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering new 'history from below' of Irish poverty told through the letters of the Catholic poor in Independent Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781316631805
• ISBN-10: 131663180X
• Artikelnr.: 57089149

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a lecturer in modern Irish history in the School of History at University College Dublin and a member of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. She has researched and published on gender, health and welfare in modern Ireland with a focus on mothers, widows and children.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The social setting: 'is this a civilized country?'
2. Artefacts of poverty: 'I crave your holy pardon for writing'
3. The 'poor' make their case: 'surely they are worth helping'
4. Hidden poverty: 'I bear my poverty in silence'
5. The cost of poverty: 'to live or rather exist'
6. Vetting and vouching: 'it would be a charity to help him'
Conclusion: 'peopling the past'
Bibliography
Index.